2 Days Until our Winter Fireside Party!

We’re counting down the days to our first annual Winter Fireside Party this Saturday, January 25th at the Vera Project. We’ll have a limited number of tickets available at the door so if you haven’t purchased your tickets yet, order your tickets now:

You can also purchase tickets for the Northwest Fiddle Tour!Start off the day at the Vera Project and then head up to the Phinney Neighborhood Center to experience a whole day of fiddlers. Between the two events, you will have the chance to hear a wide array of many of the best players of all different styles and backgrounds in the Northwest! Save money and get a discounted combined ticket to both events.

Folklife Founders, Vivian & Phil Williams

Northwest Fiddle Showcase

Winter Fireside Party, Vera Project – Seattle Center Grounds, 4pm

One of the highlights of Northwest Folklife’s Winter Fireside Party will be a Northwest Fiddle Showcase, an excited and fast-paced show of both up-and-coming new fiddlers and some pillars of Northwest Fiddle traditions. The show will feature fiddlers of various different styles including Bluegrass, Mexican music of the Tierra Caliente, Cajun twin fiddling and more. We’ll be featuring some of the hottest young fiddlers in the Seattle scene such as The Onlies, a band of teenage traditional music superstars, as well as some of the most celebrated and experienced tradition bearers, such as Vivian and Phil Williams, who have been documenting and performing Northwest fiddle music since the 1950s. Paul Anastasio, Karen England and Jim Newberry, and Ben Hunter (of Renegade Stringband) will also perform to create this cross-generational fiddle extravaganza. Please join us on January 25, 2014 at the Vera Project on the Seattle Center grounds for the Winter Fireside Party starting at 2pm with the Fiddle Showcase at 4pm.